I'm not sure. By infobox chaos do you mean vandalism? I don't think you can eliminate vandalism through stronger types. I've seen people randomly change the population of Asia to a random number with the same number of digits. The most extreme constraint would be to disallow any information that doesn't match reality because we peer-review everything, but if you are on this mailing list I suspect you think crowdsourcing basically works to some extent and over time creates a valuable resource. I've yet to see someone re-vandalize something after I fix it, so I think most of them just want to see how long it takes someone to revert their edit. I was just wondering because I'm not aware of any templates that we've imported enough data to make them parameter-less in the articles, but perhaps that is a longer term goal.
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:47:41 -0400 From: tfmorris@gmail.com To: wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] phase 2 live on the first 11 Wikipedias
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Michael Hale hale.michael.jr@live.com wrote:
Sure, I'm just wondering if it might be better to just go ahead and approve something like "number of floors" as a string, and then once numbers are supported we could try to automatically convert all of those strings to numbers and either delete or manually fix the errors that we find.
Didn't we already discuss the "just let everything be a string and figure it all out later" proposal?
That's just recreating the infobox chaos and defeating the whole purpose of Wikidata.
Tom
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